It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.

Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.

After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.

One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.